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Events on July 29

• 1836 The Paris Arc de Triomphe on the Place de l'Étoile is solemnly inaugurated.
• 1899 At the First Hague Peace Conference, agreements and declarations on the laws of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes are signed, with the First Hague Convention on Land Warfare as an annex.
• 1921 At an extraordinary party congress, Adolf Hitler disempowers the NSDAP party leadership and assumes its leadership with dictatorial powers.
• 1925 The journal Zeitschrift für Physik publishes Heisenberg's groundbreaking work on quantum mechanics (matrix mechanics), 'On the Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations'.
• 1948 The XIV Olympic Summer Games are opened in London.
• 1954 In London, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings is published.
• 1958 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which provides for the creation of NASA.
• 1973 At the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, British racing driver Roger Williamson crashes and burns to death in his car. The tragic incident reveals a series of organizational deficiencies.
• 1981 Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are married in St Paul's Cathedral in London. The television broadcast of the event reaches a worldwide audience of more than 750 million viewers, setting record ratings.
• 1986 Hitman Werner Pinzner shoots a prosecutor, his wife, and finally himself at the Hamburg police headquarters.
• 1992 Former East German leader Erich Honecker returns from refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow to Berlin and is arrested at the airport due to an outstanding arrest warrant.
• 2015 Microsoft releases the Windows 10 operating system, the successor to Windows 8.1.

Born on July 29

• 1890 Elisabeth von Thadden, German resistance fighter
• 1900 Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate
• 1924 Walter Lange, German watchmaker and entrepreneur
• 1925 Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer
• 1932 Max Bolkart, German ski jumper
• 1972 Wil Wheaton, American actor and writer
• 1974 Josh Radnor, American actor
• 1981 Fernando Alonso, Spanish Formula 1 driver
• 1982 Allison Mack, American actress
• 1991 Ramona Siebenhofer, Austrian ski racer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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